Employer: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 18 Mole Business Park
Town: Leatherhead
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 Inc 5% Fringe HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/03/2025 23:59
Health and Safety Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 6
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
This is a new and exciting time to join Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust where you can help shape the service delivery model for Health and Safety within the Trust. The role is responsible for supporting the Health and Safety Manager in developing the improvement of Health and Safety awareness across the Trust both operationally and culturally.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide support and advice to Services both centrally and locally.
2. Support the development of relevant policies and procedures.
3. Undertake audits at local Services to establish level of compliance to the relevant policies and procedures.
4. Monitor the Datix reporting system to establish trends and identify specific interventions to improve Health & Safety and Fire management across the Estate.
5. Act as the Fire Subject Matter Expert and support Property Services in improving management and compliance of this service.
6. Provide various Fire Training.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent experience.
* NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent with a minimum of Tech IOSH Registration.
* Registered as a Fire Risk Assessor on the tiered Fire Risk Assessors register with IFSM.
Experience
* At least 3 years’ experience in a Health and Safety and or Fire Advisor role.
* Development and delivery of Fire Awareness and Fire Warden training programmes.
* Experience of working within a healthcare environment would be useful but not essential.
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
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